Re: [Partysip-dev] compiling partysip

[Aymeric Moizard]

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Ralf Mahlo wrote:

> Hi!
> I'm working with Solaris 2.6 . First when I tried to compile I've got the 
> error: in pplsocket.c ,
> function ppl_gethostbyname : too much arguments for gethostbyname_r (in 
> Solaris there are only 5
> arguments, don't know about other systems...). However, I changed 
> result_buffer with result and
> deleted the old (5.) '&result'. (maybe that's wrong...)

... yes, this is probably wrong.
gethostbyname is a reentrant method: this is why I assume 'result' should
be a presiously allocated element and not a pointer to a non allocated
'struct hostent'

Could you try fixing it this way: (

> PPL_DECLARE(int) ppl_gethostbyname(struct sockaddr_in *sin, char *hostname, 
> int port)
> {
> //  struct hostent result_buffer;
>   char tmp[GETHOSTBYNAME_BUFLEN];
>   struct hostent *result;    <<- replace with 'struct hostent result'
>   int my_error;
>
>   gethostbyname_r(hostname,       /* the FQDN */
>     result,  /* the result buffer */     <<- replace with '&result'
>     tmp,
>     GETHOSTBYNAME_BUFLEN - 1,
> //    &result,
>     &my_error);
>
>   if (!result)
>     return my_error;
> }
>
> After that I can compile the program completely, but get the warning : in 
> psp_plugin.c , function
> psp_plugin_load : warning: ANSI forbids assignment between function pointer 
> and `void *' for the
> lines 69, 77 and 85 ...

This is also true on linux... partysip is not ANSI, but nearly... If
somebody know THE proper way to get rid of this warning let me know...

> I can run the program, but while loading the authentication plugin, I get a 
> bus error...

as you (the method gethostbyname) are wrinting in a non-allocated buffer,
this seems normal to get something like a bus error...
But of course, it may come from somewhere else... Let me know if the
change I propose make it work.

> Another question to the partysip.conf file: is it necessary to change the 
> content of the file with
> my own data or does it work as well with the current content?? (okay, when I 
> want to use it, it must
> be changed, but for now (only for testing, if it works) ?)

The included file 'partysip.conf' is by default given with authentication
on. But of course, the database of users does not contains your user. So
any request is expected to get a 401 or 407 response. If you change that
line (authentication = off), things should work.

Aymeric

> Regards, Ralf
>
>
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